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Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Online Gaming Are Not the Same: Findings from a Large Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample [PDF]

, 2014
There is an ongoing debate in the literature whether problematic internet use (PIU) and problematic online gaming (POG) are two distinct conceptual and nosological entities or whether they are the same.
Demetrovics, Z, Elekes, Z, Farkas, J, Griffiths, MD, Király, O, Kökönyei, G, Tamás, D, Urbán, R   +7 more
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Internet and Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroimaging Studies

Brain Sciences, 2012
In the past decade, research has accumulated suggesting that excessive Internet use can lead to the development of a behavioral addiction. Internet addiction has been considered as a serious threat to mental health and the excessive use of the Internet ...
Daria J. Kuss, Mark D. Griffiths
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Measuring addiction to internet gaming among Indian medical students: Development and preliminary psychometric properties of a new scale

Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2020
Background: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is emerging as an important source of behavioral addiction in young people globally. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess addiction to internet gaming in medical students using a self designed research
Saurav Basu, Pragya Sharma, Ruchir Rustagi, Ragini Sharma, Nandini Sharma   +4 more
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Prevalence of Behavioral Addictions and Their Relationship With Stress and Anxiety Among Medical Students in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Behavioral addiction is identified as any compulsive, repeated, and persistent behavior that leads to significant and functionally impairing harm or distress. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of internet, video-gaming, and pornography
Alqassem Y. Hakami, Alqassem Y. Hakami, Rami Ghazi Ahmad, Rami Ghazi Ahmad, Abdullah Alsharif, Abdullah Alsharif, Alaa Ashqar, Alaa Ashqar, Fahad A. AlHarbi, Fahad A. AlHarbi, Mohammed Sayes, Mohammed Sayes, Anas Bafail, Anas Bafail, Ali Alqrni, Ali Alqrni, Mohammed A. Khan, Mohammed A. Khan   +17 more
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Utility of Parental Mediation Model on Youth’s Problematic Online Gaming [PDF]

, 2015
The Parental Mediation Model PMM) was initially designed to regulate children’s attitudes towards the traditional media. In the present era, because of prevalent online media there is a need for similar regulative measures.
A Daud, A Kapahi, A Nathanson, AI Nathanson, AK Liau, BM Byrne, D Hooper, DA Fisher, DTL Shek, G Mesch, HF Kaiser, JF Hair, LA Kirkpatrick, M Buijzen, M Buijzen, M Teimori, Mark D. Griffiths, Misha Teimouri, MO Lwin, NAM Zin, P Nikken, PM Valkenburg, Rahim Benrazavi, RB Kline, S-J Lee, S-J Lee, Y Fujioka, Z Demetrovics   +27 more
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The mediating effect of gaming motivation between psychiatric symptoms and problematic online gaming: an online survey [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The rapid expansion of online video gaming as a leisure time activity has led to the appearance of problematic online gaming (POG). According to the literature, POG is associated with different psychiatric symptoms (eg, depression, anxiety ...
Demetrovics, Z, Griffiths, MD, Király, O, Kökönyei, G, Nagygyörgy, K, Urbán, R, Ágoston, C   +6 more
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The mediating effect of self-esteem, depression and anxiety between satisfaction with body appearance and problematic Internet use [PDF]

, 2013
Background and objectives: Given that dissatisfaction with bodily appearance can sometimes lead to the avoidance of personal contacts and the increase of internet use, this study examines this relationship.
Demetrovics, Z, Griffiths, MD, Koronczai, B, Kun, B, Kökönyei, G, Nagygyörgy, K, Pápay, O, Urbán, R   +7 more
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Social Bullying Among Undergraduates: The Roles of Internet Gaming Disorder, Risk-Taking Behavior, and Internet Addiction

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
An issue that affects the academic engagement, performance, health and wellbeing of university undergraduates is bullying. Substantial literature has examined the predictors of bullying perpetration, but there is little research on the contributions of ...
Chinonso L. Nwanosike, Ikechukwu V. N. Ujoatuonu, Gabriel C. Kanu, Obinna O. Ike, Tochukwu J. Okeke   +4 more
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The conceptualisation and measurement of DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder: the development of the IGD-20 Test [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Over the last decade, there has been growing concern about ‘gaming addiction’ and its widely documented detrimental impacts on a minority of individuals that play excessively. The latest (fifth) edition of the American Psychiatric Association’
AG Glaros, AL Comrey, AN Joinson, D Gentile, D King, DG Altman, DG Altman, DJ Kuss, DP Crowne, F Rehbein, H Cole, Halley M. Pontes, J Suler, JP Charlton, JP Charlton, JS Lemmens, KS Young, LT Hu, Mark D. Griffiths, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, NJ Thomas, Orsolya Király, R Wood, RA Tejeiro Salguero, SM Grüsser, TM Haladyna, Yijun Liu, Z Demetrovics, Z Hussain, Zsolt Demetrovics   +35 more
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Peer, family, and teacher relationships and adolescent internet gaming addiction: Mediating roles of social interaction and emotional needs

Acta Psychologica
Background: Internet gaming addiction is a growing behavioral concern among adolescents. Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey with a randomly selected sample of 1017 adolescents.
Haiming Wang, Wei Zhang
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